Positive Affirmations

Let me share with you! If you have been part of this blog or part of my Joyful Life blog, you know I have been on this positive thinking journey for some time. I decided to do the slide show that had my affirmations in them~ a way to make the affirmations more than just words. To give them some tangibility. I I have been watching it and realized that there is more to the positive thinking than just thinking or saying.

For me, I figured out that it really has to be something more than words. Although the words written, read, said all help there needs to be more. I need it to be more real~ the slide show really is helping and I am working on one that I hope will really be even better for me. I figured something out. For the affirmations to work~ really WORK~ there must be some sort of way to actually make it something you believe that you can have in your life.

Here is the way I figured it~ say you want more happiness in your life. Happiness, when you say it is a word, will envoke a memory of a happy moment. If you examine the happy memory, there will probably be things in your memory that enlist all the senses. You can remember what you were hearing, what you were seeing, smells that may have been present, you may remember a certain taste if the memory involved a taste, and you may have memories of feeling textures or temptures. When I was looking at "Happiness" I knew that my most precious happy memories are things to do with my kids. I went on a happiness journey~

Wrote the word~ Happiness. Wrote my Affirmation: I have happiness in my life every day. Said my affirmation out loud: I have happiness in my life everyday. Then... then I sat quietly and and brought up a happy memory. For me it was yesterday, watching my kids ride on their bikes. Having my son out riding with my daughter was so cool. I was laughing and giggling at them and they were having fun together. We were happy. I thought about all the senses that I was using during this hour or so of happiness. There was the warm sun on my skin, a little breeze blowing and you could feel it. You could smell the flower garden across the street. There was laughter and the kids talking to me and eachother. Yes I could totally recall all the senses in bringing up the happy memory.

I figured out that for me, any affirmation, any of the stuff that I want to make happen in my life, any positive thinking I do, I need to be able to really BELIEVE in it and also be able to bring all my senses into bringing it to life in my mind and be able to play the movie of it in my head. Daydreaming with all the senses...

I am so looking forward to making this change in this and move forward on my Positive Thinking journey...

Stay Tuned and I'll update soon!